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Meta is partnering with AI start-up Midjourney.
It's the latest move in Meta's rapid transformation to keep up in the AI race.
Midjourney will remain independent, according to its CEO.
Meta is partnering with Midjourney as part of its ongoing effort to win the AI race.
The collaboration will allow Meta to integrate Midjourney's "aesthetic technology" into future models and products, Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang wrote in a X post on Friday. "We are incredibly impressed by Midjourney," Wang wrote. "They have accomplished true feats of technical and aesthetic excellence, and we are thrilled to be working more closely with them."
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Midjourney launched in the summer of 2022, not long before generative AI began to spread like wildfire across the cultural landscape, thanks in large part to the release of ChatGPT about four months later. The company quickly became known as an industry leader in text-to-image models; it released an image-to-video model, called V1, in June of this year.
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